Do you feel there is favoritism her on mylot ?
By ronnyb
@ronnyb (6113)
Jamaica
December 5, 2008 12:57pm CST
I am asking who you would give a best response to if you were in a situation where two persons wrote a response to a discussion you started and the persons discussion was equally good or even better than you friend ?
I already know that persons select their friends discussion to respond to first .What would you do ?
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@cadman1 (96)
• United States
5 Dec 08
I'm sure there is plenty of favoritism when it comes to a decision like that but it problem goes more towards those with a higher ranking (stars). The way myLot displays it's ranking system reminds me of eBay. You feel more comfortable interacting with the people on eBay with high rankings, so on here many people may do the same thing. On the other hand some people might just choose the person who's screen name they like better or how many posts they have. It would just be wise to not respond in a similar manner to someone else on a discussion of you're that worried about it. Try to bring about another point or something.
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@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
6 Dec 08
Ok I think I see what you mean ,you are saying that people may choose to respond to discussions that people with higher ranks have responded to ,right which is kind of a favoritism to person of higher rank-if thats what you are saying that is deep and I didn teven realise that aspect of it so thanks
@cadman1 (96)
• United States
5 Dec 08
What I mean is people on eBay have a high rank because they have been rated as such by other users. On this site it is similar because the ranks come from good responses and bulletins and the participation of others because so that earn your ranking. One may be persuaded to choose on the premise that a person has a higher rank because they have shown themselves to be more beneficial on the site. It shouldn't he hard for most to make the choice they wholy agree with and if they are so similar that it's hard to tell, then choose the one posted first. It's likely that the next person simply embelished on the earlier response and if not, oh well. They should have responded to your bulletin sooner with the "best" response. I was just giving one example of possible favoritism.
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@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
5 Dec 08
I've honestly not noticed this happening too much. The overwhelming majority of my best responses were given to me by people who aren't in my friends list. Likewise, almost all of the best responses I've given out have gone to people who aren't in my friends list. I'm sure there is some favoritism shown to friends from time to time, but I don't think it's a huge problem on myLot.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
5 Dec 08
I really appreciate it when my friends respond to my discussions, and I respond to theirs if I can, but I only give them a best response, if I actually mean it. I always read each response carefully before I choose, and sometimes people who are completely unknown to me write exactly the words and I need or the words I was looking for. If there are two really good responses and one is from my friend and the other one is from someone I don't know, I still try to be fair and I try to concentrate on the quality of the reponse instead of the name of the person who wrote it.
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@lovelyvelle (639)
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5 Dec 08
I never think of favoritism here on mylot. It depends if the person feels comfortable on your response to mark it as best, just like they like how you say it. Yes, I agree with you about making decisions on marking the best response to a certain discussions sometimes it's not easy, it might had been better if there's top ten best responses to be marked but only one and most of them were the best really.
@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
5 Dec 08
I don't feel that there's any problem with favoritism on myLot. At least, I've seen and experienced none. I, personally, never think about who's my "friend" and who's not when I'm reading the comments on my discussions. It's unfair to reward someone just because they're on my friends list if their response was of lower quality than another posters.
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